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quinnspuddinjoker Posts: 673
3/11/2017
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So we all have books that we bought at cover price when the book came out to find a year or so that it is a real hot book and the selling price is now way way bigger than the cover price.
so only list books that you bought new at cover price that turned into a big ticket book. Here are a few of mine I'm glad I bought.
NYX 3. Once I saw the first issue of the series I was hooked, really cool cover. So I ordered 3 of each issues in the series. So I got three copies at cover price of NYX 3.
Harley Quinn 1 Hughes variant. Got two issues of it at cover price. Just followed a auction of one and it just sold for $344.
Things like this makes collecting fun for me.
How about you, list them please.
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Defiant1 Posts: 720
3/12/2017
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X-Men #94 - Bought it for cover price and then saw the price rise to $60 a book in ads. It was the comic that taught me to handle them with more care.
Solar #10 (Valiant) - It was selling out everywhere the day it was released. Stores were buying it back for cover price within a few days because they had so many other customers wanting it.
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quinnspuddinjoker Posts: 673
3/12/2017
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Nice! It took me nearly five years of collecting to worry of how I handled my books. Just wanted to read the books without care.
I was in 5th grade when X-Men 94 came out!
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dav1 Posts: 60
3/13/2017
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ms marvel 18 new mutant 98 and starwars 1 got all at cover
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aarondawe Posts: 162
3/13/2017
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ASM 238 & 300. Batman Vengeance of Bane. I was too late for most of the bronze age 'big' books. You would never find any X-men on the racks (I think some collector guy was buying them all up. It wasn't until 147 that they started to show regularly.
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h2oman171 Posts: 1
3/18/2017
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I purchase Iron First 1-15 all for 1 dollar at a bargain bin at a comic book store long ago. I bought because I was a Byrne fan. I got Giant Size X-men1 at a flea market when I was in elementary school with a bunch of other books as well for a few dollars. Very few of my comics in my huge collection were not bought at cover price. I imagine I have over 4700 books purchased at cover price
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Defiant1 Posts: 720
3/19/2017
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I would like to add that the following... and much more... were bought at cover price and still in my collection..
Hulk #180, 181
Amazing Spider-Man #121, 122, 129, 238 (3 copies)
Iron Man #55
Giant-Size X-men #1
X-men #94-181 or so
Most other hot Marvel issues from that time period. 1st rocket raccoon in Hulk... cover price.
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raztaman420 Posts: 26
3/19/2017
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We can go on forever about the cover price books we bought that went up in value, but you said after "a year or so". The fastest ones I noticed that jumped in value was the Ultimate Spider-Man #1, which was a shock to me because you would think everyone and their mom bought it. But still for some reason it went up a lot in a short time. NYX #3, and that was up to $30 only a month or so after it came out. I also remember buying "The Goon" in the late 90's, just because it was a first issue and the art was cool. Carefully read it, bagged and boarded. I thought it was a junker, then a decade later I checked and it's in the hundreds.
Talking about handling comics and when I started to care...that was when I discovered Ebay and saw all the huge differences in prices between F/VF/NM etc. I sent some books I thought were perfect to CGC, they came back a 9.2 or 9.4. When I read the books now, I'm like a surgeon. My fingers don't touch the book. I use something to turn the pages (a chopstick, a butter knife, whatever is there and clean), and carefully slide that sucker in the bag. At the comic shop I take the entire stack and pick the cleanest ones out of the batch. I just stopped short of asking the comic shop guy not to touch them.....but I digress..
Thinking back to my early teens, would have to be New Mutants #87. That was a $30 book at comicons a few months after it came out, and even the gold reprint was out shortly after. New Mutants #98 took much longer to go up, everyone was banking on Cable blowing up, but Deadpool was the one that became a household name. Remember cosmic spidey? That came out and I was at a convention...one seller was trying to sell it for $5 when it was new, fresh on the rack! ~raz
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lealew7 Posts: 73
3/20/2017
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First Comic i noticed a big jump from what i paid for was my Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose #1, along with 1 of the few variant covers for just issue #1. I paid like 3 or 4 something for it and now it's up in the $50's. The only other Comic i have that really went up and i didn't realize it would ever do so, was my Walking Dead#1 Variant Michael Golden Wizard World issue that i received just for purchasing a Ticket for the day's event. Now its near $200 for its condition with autograph, but only Raw, not CGC graded at this time  I too enjoy finding neat treasures when i least expect it.
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sclingerman Posts: 165
4/24/2017
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"What If... Venom Possessed Deadpool?". That went up within 4 years of me buying it.
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